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Jamie Nicholls set the snowball rolling as Team GB began a campaign that is being backed to be the best since before the Second World War.

Even before the Opening Ceremony today, the slopestyle snowboarders were in action on a course that has already claimed casualties and criticism. Nicholls was the pick of the British in an event in which boarders perform tricks over rails and jumps.

A fine second run was enough to take him straight into the final tomorrow, but Billy Morgan, Jenny Jones and Aimee Fuller, his compatriots, will have to negotiate the semi-finals.